# Async Cache, and a helper for porting sync code

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**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/async-cache-and-a-helper-for-porting-sync-code/302 "2019-09-24T20:31:18Z")\
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Turns out `async` is a reserved word… on 3.7. Suggestions for an alternate name have been:

- `cache.a.get`
- `cache.as_async.get`

We’re going to try `a` for now and see how it sits.

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